University of Hawaii System newsletter

Shortly after the devastating tsunami in Japan on March 11, aerial photographs and satellite images captured massive islands of lumber and other debris floating in the sea. Less than a month later the debris had mysteriously disappeared from view and virtually nothing has been heard of it since.

An animation model created by Mānoa’s International Pacific Research Center caught the attention of the media worldwide. Senior Researcher Nikolai Maximenko and Scientific Computer Programmer Jan Hafner, the developers of the animation, have been inundated with questions about where the debris is now. Read more

Mānoa’s William S. Richardson School of Law was ranked high nationally among the country’s law schools in two important realms. The school was named one of the “60 Best Value Law Schools” for 2011 by PreLaw Magazine and is 16th in National Jurist Magazine’s ranking of the top 20 law schools that offer exceptional clinical training opportunities. Read more

The UH Design Workshop, within Mānoa’s Department of Art and Art History, won the First Place Award for Environmental/Sustainability at the 2011 International AIGA (Re)Design Awards. The winning design project is an identity system for the School of Architecture and uses recycled paper, carbon-neutral printing and a single press sheet to reduce paper waste. The project’s art director was Professor Anne Bush and design students are Adine Close, John Cruz, Hao In Kuan and Yonghao Yan. Read more

Mānoa Associate Professor of American Studies Robert Perkinson won the John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction for his 2010 book, Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire. The award from the PEN American Center honors books of notable literary merit that offer critical perspectives on contemporary issues. Read more

Amazing facts, pictures and exciting new projects are some of the features on the new site. Access to professional resources such as research databases, publications and releases for download is also available. Read more

Working together with other UH Mānoa colleagues on the Belle experiment at the KEKB factory in Tsukuba, Japan, postdoctoral researcher Himansu Sahoo reported the first observation of a new type of rare “penguin decay” of the beauty quark and measured its matter-antimatter symmetry violation parameters. The results will be published in the October 2011 issue of Physical Review D Rapid Communications. Sahoo is the first author of this paper, which was the basis for his Phd dissertation at UH Mānoa. Read more

The fall 2011 enrollment for UH System reached yet another high in the institution’s history with 60,519 students. It surpasses fall 2010’s record enrollment of 60,231 by 288 students, or 0.5 percent. UH’s fall opening enrollment has increased for a fifth straight year and has grown by 20 percent since 2006.

“Enrollment at our University of Hawaiʻi campuses today is 10,000 students greater than it was five years ago, which shows that people understand higher education is a good investment,” says UH Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost Linda Johnsrud. Read more

UH will present its proposed tuition schedule for fall 2012 through spring 2017 to the community at open public meetings statewide Sept. 16–Oct. 21. The meetings will explain the rationale for the tuition proposal, what increases would be used for and elicit feedback from the public. Read more